St. Landry democrat., 1887-05-07
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

! iol DcStoA3 uOpiiiS w SoiAi HAS"ANhA ''AAN
strength by the change.
The Baltimore q Ohio Express Com
pany has signed a contract with the Rich
mond & Allegheny railroad, by which the
! former gains the exclusive right to trans
| act the express business OVER the $50
miles of the Richmond Il Allegheny.
| THE Yale freshmen, who have received
| a challenge from the University of Penn
| sylvania freshmen for two-mile straight
| away cight-ored race at New London,
have voted to accept the challenge The
race will probably be rowcd the same day
as that of the Yale-Harvard University.
| THE Chamber of Commerce of Man
chester, Eng, by a vote of 81 to 33, adopt
ed resolution affirming unabated con-
fdcnce in free trade as the best national
commercial policy.
SPEAKER SAYRE denies that there is any
prospect of an extra session Of the Indiana
Legislature or that break of the politi-
cal deadlock is probable
1 CONGRESSMAN HEARD, of Missouri, is
seriously i'll at Washington.
THE yacht Thistle was launched near
Greenock, Scotland on the Goth.
JAMES 6. BLAINE departed for home
from Chicago on the Goth
! ALEXANDER MlTCHELL'S remains were
buried at Milwaukee on the 26.h.
FoRTY-FoUR Missouri Bald Knobbers
were indicted on the Goth at Ozark.
AN old bombshell exploded at Harper's
Ferry W. Va, on the 10Th, seriously in
juring six persons.
QUITE breeze was created in the Cana
dian Parliament on the Goth by the alb
sence of certain documents bearing on
the fisheries dispute.
TUESDAY, the Goth, was Odd-Fellows'
anniversary, and was generally celeb
throughout the country.
RUSSIAN authorities have stopped citi-
zens of St Petersburg from presenting
General Boulanger, French Minister OF
War, with a sword Of honor.
A MONUMENT to John c. Calhoun was
unveiled with appropriate ceremonies at
| Charleston, S. c., on the .6th.
HENRY HEILE, insane, of Cincinnati,
made a savage assault on his wife and
children on the Goth, and then killed him
self.
LIEUTENANT JAMES H. WILCOX, Of the
Seventh cavalry, is on trial at Fort Smell
ling Mimi, on charge of duplicating his
pay accounts.
In fire at Allegheny City, Pa. on the
Goth, two persons were suffocated out
right and two more were in ured, it is
| thought, fatally.
LIE tauduldu uSutIf pIOletIlOil HSeG
starts on it's cruise May 10. Officers have
been forbidden to be interviewed by press
representatives
MAGGIE MCCARTHY. Cleveland's muir
dered girl, was buried on the Goth.
In rencontre on the Goth at jefferson
City. Mo, between State Auditor Walker
and Judge Henry, late of the Supreme
Court, the former was dubbed severely
and the latter shot in the arm and breast.
IT is given out in Cleveland police and
detective circles that there is hopeful
prospect of ferreting out and bringing to
| Justice the murderers of Maggie Nc
Carthy.
THE Emperor of Austria reviewed 10000
troops on the Schmerz Plain on the 26th,
in honor of Archduke Albrecht. There
was a great attendance of spectators, and
| the weather was beautiful.
AT least four hundre children are said
to be down with the measles in Madison,
Wis. Mlny adults are also afflicted. The
public schools have been closed.
TIVE post-offce inspectors, during the
month of March, made fifty seven arrests
of persons charged with criminal offenses
against the sanctity of the mail.
A FRESH Zankoffist or Pro-Russan con-
spiracy has been discovered at Sonia
| Several men, who formerly were officers
in the Bulgarian army, have been arrest
ed for active participation in the new
| movement.
IT IS understood that Lieutenant Colonel
Lasalle has declined an appointment to
| succeed Lieutenant Colonel Scott, de-
ceased, in charge of the publication of the
rebellion records. Assistant Adjutant-
General Vincent is spoken of as likely to
receive the appointment
THE locked-out sllversmiths of New
| York, at a meeting on the 26th, decided
| not to surrender on any conditions, unless
the bosses withdraw their obnoxious
stipula ton in regard to the union.
| THE Crown Prince Frederick William of
Germany is rapidly recovering his health
| under the treatment he is receiving at
| Ems. His hoarseness has entirely disap-
peared, and his appearance indicates COM
plete restoration to health within short
| time
IT is reported that the French Govern
ment will, if the French and German &C
counts of the Schnaebeles affair prove If
reconcilable, propose to submit the mat
ter to the King of Belgium for arbltra
! ton
| COLLECTOR SEEBERGER OF Chicago has
been virtually exonerated by the recent
| the Civil-Service law.
| PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has written
strong letter to the Secretary of the In
terror in the matter of Gullford Miller,
| settler on Northern Pacific lands.
| IT is understood on very high authority
| that Antonio Perazzo, the Italian, who
was tracked to Canada and arrested on
charge of numbering Maggie Albrecht in
a house of ill-fame at Newark, N. j.. some
months ago, has confessed
WILLIAM HENRY O'SULLIvAN, who rep
resented Limerick County in the British
House of Commons for ten years follow
ing 1874, died on the 9th, aged fifty-eight
years O'Sullivan was Home Ruler.
The Inter State Commerce Commission
began it's session at Atlanta, Ga, on the
9th
FIRE and series of explosions de-